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“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment” (Ecclesiastes 11:9).
Here in today’s verse we have a warning. God takes notice of all those things we may have done in the past, and has kept a record of them. When we are young we sometimes are tempted to do things without thinking of how sinful they are in the sight of God. This verse reminds us that if we do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we will have to stand before God some day and be judged for them.
Those sins in the past must be accounted for, and we cannot pretend that God does not care about them. We cannot simply “turn over a new leaf,” and think that we will do better from now on. No, God is a God of judgment, and cannot just forget about our past.
World War II has been over for almost 80 years, yet as I write this in 2024, a 99-year-old woman was recently brought to trial in Germany for crimes she allegedly committed as a very young woman under the Nazi administration. If man does not forget the past, surely God is not less righteous than man.
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